Research

loon:loon is an interactive statistical
visualization toolkit that has bindings with R and Tcl. You
are welcome to test the beta versions of `loon` that are
available on the github project site. I am currently working on making `loon` available on CRAN.

RnavGraph:RnavGraph is an open source
tool that I have developed in R, Tcl/Tk,
and C and is available as an R package on
CRAN.
RnavGraph is a tool to visually cluster and explore
high dimensional data that implements an idea first proposed
by Hurley and Oldford (2011). Their idea involves the use of
graphs as a navigational infrastructure for a controlled
exploration of high dimensional data.
www.navgraph.com

Projects

Spatio-Temporal Visualization of Seal Migration Data in Nova Scotia: This project was part of "The Ocean Tracking Network Canada" research program and involved outfitting grey seals from Sable Island at the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, with a GPS receiver and altimeter to collect location and elevation information. One of the objectives of this study was to investigate the migration and fishing behaviour of the grey seals.
As part of this project, I aggregated the data by hour for each seal and then visuallized the seal trajectories over a 6-month period in Google Earth using the Keyhole Markup Language. screenshot

Zurich Housing Data: This project was part of the course work in spatial statistics during my master's program at the University of Waterloo.
The goal was to get an overview of the rental market in Zurich and to automatically determine whether a particular rental apartment was priced well in comparison to apartments that had similar characteristics. slide deck 1, slide deck 2, slide deck 3

Statistical Computing

R Introduction for Economic Studens is a six lecture course I designed and taught to PhD. studends from the department of economics at the University of Waterloo. The material is, however, useful for anyone who wants to learn R. website

Personal

Pet Patrol website: Pet Patrol is a local cat-rescue organization in Waterloo. I got involved with Pet Patrol when I adopted a cat in September 2011. I set up a content management system (WordPress) with custom plugin and theme in order to automate the cat adoption workflow. www.petpatrol.ca